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New OECD report examines global outlook of social progress for children

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Via GOOD and Quartz: ” That bullying is both a terrible and all too common feature of childhood is beyond question. But a recent report put out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) seeks not only to address the social and developmental realities of children around the world, but indexes exactly where in the world kids reported experiencing the most bullying.  In “Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills,” OECD pulled data from a 2009-2010 World Health Organization survey, published in 2012, which asked children ages 11, 13, and 15 about having been bullied multiple times in the previous several months. What they found was that for the years in question, nearly one in 10 boys worldwide reported having been bullied, with Austrian boys experiencing the most harassment, and Swedish ones, the least. Eleven percent of American boys reported incidents of bullying, compared to 15 percent of their Canadian neighbors to the north.”

  • “Skills for Social Progress – The Power of Social and Emotional Skills” DOI:10.1787/9789264226159-en. This report presents a synthesis of OECD’s empirical work that aims at identifying the types of social and emotional skills that drive children’s future outcomes.”

Brookings report on highest household incomes in 50 largest US cities

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Alan Berube and Natalie Holmes – Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update [See also City Inequality 2013 Appendix] “More than five years after the end of the Great Recession, and three years since the Occupy movement took on Wall Street, high and growing levels of income inequality continue to animate debates on… Continue Reading

Quantifying Uncertainty and Variable Sensitivity within the U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster Cost Estimates

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Smith, Adam, Quantifying Uncertainty and Variable Sensitivity within the U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster Cost Estimates (March 11, 2015). Natural Hazards, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1678-x. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2581699 “Research examining natural disaster costs on social and economic systems is substantial. However, there are few empirical studies that seek to quantify the uncertainty… Continue Reading

Destabilizing Property

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“Rosser, Ezra, Destabilizing Property (March 1, 2015). Connecticut Law Review, Forthcoming; American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2015-1. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2581710 “Property theory has entered into uncertain times. Conservative and progressive scholars are fiercely contesting everything it seems, from what is at the core of property to what obligations owners owe society.… Continue Reading

The Shrinking Middle Class, Mapped State by State

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Via Pew – “The struggles of middle-class American families and growing income inequality have risen to the top of the national agenda. A new Stateline analysis shows that in all 50 states, the percentage of “middle-class” households—those making between 67 percent and 200 percent of the state’s median income—shrunk between 2000 and 2013. The change… Continue Reading

WHO issues assessment on carcinogenicity of five leading insecticides and herbicides

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20 March 2015 – IARC Monographs Volume 112: evaluation of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides: “A Working Group of 17 experts from 11 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on 3–10 March 2015 to review the available published scientific evidence and evaluate the carcinogenicity of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides:… Continue Reading